Pope Leo XIV declares the 2007 Rhode Island baby's recovery a miracle, crediting physician’s prayer to Father Valera Parra ...

Sistine Chapel's recent ties to pop culture. Besides the artwork, most people have also become familiar with the Sistine Chapel through fiction thanks to Robert Harris' 2016 hit book-turned-Oscar ...

T he conclave to select the next Pope is starting, and the Sistine Chapel is the room where it happens. As depicted (with some liberties taken) in the Oscar-nominated film Conclave, this historic ...

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. The ...

People wait for the smoke billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that a successor of late Pope Francis was ...

On Aug. 15, 1483, Pope Sixtus IV consecrated the Sistine Chapel to Our Lady of the Assumption. Today, as we celebrate the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, let’s take a closer look at this ...

Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ...

Workers set up "Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition" at Sailor & The Dock on Oklahoma City’s Film Row on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022.

Sistine Chapel exhibition brings heavenly Michelangelo masterpiece down to Earth It may just be the most intimate, up-close-and-personal, no-scaffolding-required way to experience the ceiling ...

Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ...

Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ...

Firefighters place the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ...